Alcoholism Support Group

Alcoholism is the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, even when it is negatively affecting your health, work, relationships and life. If you think alcohol is causing you to lose control, it's time to seek help. Our group is a safe place to vent, check in, get back up if you fall, and reach sobriety.

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Can anyone please help I have just come off a four day bender I am about to loose everything unless I get my act together this is the second day sober but I am DESPERATE for a drink and I am struggling not to dash to the off sales.

Sober I know I shouldn't but the craving is sooooo bad I don't know how to beat this demon that comes out after the first drink.

hi lennie les is right you need something or someone to help you through this. stay on line and talk to the folks here. drink orange juice with honey in it, eat healthy, stay hydrated, get some one to be with you. 2 days you are doing great keep it up. its hard, but it is worth it. i will be thinking positive thought for you. stay hard stay focused .

I have the same question as cat, at what point are you at with your drinking? If you've been drinking for a long time on a daily basis you may need to be medically supervised through your withdrawal. I just got out of inpatient treatment, it really helped me in many ways.

There are medications out there to help minimize cravings, I didn't need them, but many of the people I was in treatment with used them. AA has been a wonderful support for me. Hang in there...

I am attending the doctors and I am on medication, but when I decided to go on a bender I Stopped taking it, thinking I could just have one drink, unfortunately that's my problem I am fine until I have this first drink. For 2 days I have taken my medication and fortunately feel better than I did yesterday at the moment being busy talking to yourselves has got me over the worse of the cravings and I know I can get through the rest of the day

Hang in there!!! Make a list of all the healthy things that make you feel good, keep to that list, rest, pray, chat with us here, what ever you need to do to get over the worst part. Sounds like you believe detox, rehab, is not for you? Ah how do you feel about AA or therapy?

Be careful of seizures, especially if you've been drinking for a long time. They can happen as the alcohol leaves your system. I've never had one, but know ppl who have.

As far as being on day two...Way to go! Great job! Those are some hard 2 days, eh? They always were for me! I tried quitting for almost a year before I found what worked for me. I have probably 30 &quot;Day 2s&quot; in my past.

What worked for me is AA and treatment. In AA I was able to talk to other alcoholics and learn how they quit drinking and it gave me hope. In treatment I learned about alcoholism and all that goes with it.

AA works if I work it. The ppl there are just like me and talking about cravings helps me deal with them.

Good luck to you. I hope you find your way to recovery!

btw- don't wait until you hit you bottom. Save yourself the final stages of alcoholism if you can!

&quot;the first edition of the book &quot;Alcoholics Anonymous,&quot; published when our membership was small, dealt with low-bottom cases only. Many less desperate alcoholics tried A.A., but did not succeed because they could not make the admission of hopelessness. It is a tremendous satisfaction to record that in the following years this changed. Alcoholics who still had their health, their families, their jobs, and even two cars in the garage, began to recognize their alcoholism. As this trend grew, they were joined by young people who were scarcely more than potential alcoholics. They were spared that last ten or fifteen years of literal hell the rest of us had gone through. Since Step One requires an admission that our lives have become unmanageable, how could people such as these take this Step? It was obviously necessary to raise the bottom the rest of us had hit to the point where it would hit them. By going back in our own drinking histories, we could show that years before we realized it we were out of control, that our drinking even then was no mere habit, that it was indeed the beginning of a fatal progression. To the doubters we could say, &quot;Perhaps you're not an alcoholic after all. Why don't you try some more controlled drinking, bearing in mind meanwhile what we have told you about alcoholism?&quot; This attitude brought immediate and practical results. It was then discovered that when one alcoholic had planted in the mind of another the true nature of his malady, that person could never be the same again. Following every spree, he would say to himself, &quot;Maybe those A.A.'s were right...&quot; After a few such experiences, often years before the onset of extreme difficulties, he would return to us convinced. He had hit bottom as truly as any of us.&quot;

Hi Lennie ~ I know the problem. You go a couple of days and start to feel pretty good, and then think &quot;oh, I can have just ONE drink.&quot; Of course, it never stops at one as we all know, and you end up right back where you were. If you can keep in your mind how HORRIBLE you felt the last hangover you had, and the guilt, shame, and remorse you felt, then maybe it will keep you from taking that first drink again.

It helped me to eat chocolate candy, cause it replaces the sugar that we're used to getting from the booze/beer. And of course you must keep yourself hydrated, so drink juices, pop, water, whatever. Make sure you eat healthy too ~ this is one time you don't want to watch your diet! lol. So go EAT! You can always take off weight somewhere down the road if need be, but NOT NOW. lol.

I'm glad you're talking to us. Keep it up and you'll make it. Just one day at a time. There were days I had to take it one minute at a time, cause a day was too much. Whatever works for you! God bless. Hugs, Lee

Everyone has their bottom. They hit a point where they can't take it anymore and need to make a decision to either continue drinking and going about life in that dismal fog or seek help and begin gaining some spiritual principles.

I was introduced to the program in 1993. Didn't think it was for me and didn't stick around...felt &quot;different&quot; from evryone else. Drank, drank, drank (among other things). Lost everything, divorce, life seemed meaningless. Went to prison, got out, drank...didn't have much to lose...went back to prison, got out, drank....went back to prison, got out, began working AA. Four years sober last week. I've got to the point where I was tired of hitting bottom, and they were always worse ones. I wanted something different so I got off my ass and began this process of sobriety, and it's working for me.

Congrats on your 4 years sober! That's great! You're right ~ we all have to hit our bottom, and everyone's bottom is different. For some, it's pretty deep! I was pretty fortunate and got sober before I had to lose much, other than my self-respect, self-worth, etc. But anyway, again ~ congrats on 4 years! Hugs, Lee

Thanks to all for advise and support.This morning was really bad but thanks to you all I have got over the worst of todays cravings. So lets hope I can do the same tommorow. One day at a time and Thanks again. Will write in journal tomorrow, so feel free to reply as you have all given me the belief I can do this, and I am going to

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